Murray gets all-clear for comeback in Washington

Andy Murray last night confirmed that the wrist injury that forced him to miss Wimbledon has recovered sufficiently to allow him to contest the Washington Classic, which begins on July 30, and build up to the US Open at Flushing Meadows next month.

"The doctor has given me the all-clear to step things up," said the Scot, who flies out to the US at the weekend and will spend five days at Nick Bollettieri's academy.

"I'm getting much better. My wrist's responded really well to all the treatment and the careful approach I've taken with it." Lleyton Hewitt has hired Tony Roche, the coach with whom Roger Federer parted company two weeks before the French Open.